Abstract:
A fibre (10) comprises an inner conductor (12), a volume (14) of electro-optic material (16), an external conductor (20), with a photoconductor (18) between the inner conductor and an external conductor. The volume of electro-optic material comprises capsules of electrophoretic, black and white charged particles (24, 26), the black particles having an opposite charge to the white particles. The components of the fibre are flexible, such that the fibre is suitable for use in a flexible display device.
Abstract:
An optical fibre having a longitudinal direction and a cross-section perpendicular thereto, said fibre in a cross-section comprising: (a) a core region (11) having a refractive index profile with a highest refractive index n c , and (b) a cladding region comprising cladding features (10) having a centre-to-centre spacing, Λ, and a diameter, d, of around 0.4Λ or larger, wherein n c , Λ and d are adapted such that the fibre exhibits zero dispersion wavelength of a fundamental mode in the wavelength range from 1530 nm to 1640 nm; a method of producing such a fibre; and use of such an optical fibre in e.g. an optical communication system, in an optical fibre laser, in an optical fibre amplifier, in an optical fibre Raman amplifier, in a dispersion compensator, in a dispersion and/or dispersion slope compensator.
Abstract:
Apparatus for providing timing jitter tolerant optical modulation of a first signal (1) by a second signal (2), the first signal having a first wavelength (3), the second signal comprising a plurality of second signal pulses (4) having a second pulse shape (5) and a second wavelength (6), and the apparatus comprising a first signal input port (8), a second signal input port (9), a coupler (10), a grating (11) and a non-linear optical device (12), the apparatus being configured to direct the second signal (2) at the second signal input port (9) to the non-linear optical device (12) via the coupler (10) and the grating (11), and to direct the first signal (1) at the first signal input port (8) to the non-linear optical device (12); the grating (11) being a superstructured fibre Bragg grating that converts the second signal pulses (4) into intermediary pulses (13) each having an intermediary pulse shape (14); the intermediary pulse shape (14) being such that it provides a switching window (19) within the non-linear optical device (12).
Abstract:
An optical apparatus includes an optical fiber. A plurality of individual optical fiber deformation structures are positioned adjacent along a length of the optical fiber. Each of an individual optical fiber deformation structure introduces a mechanical or index deformation of a portion of the optical fiber to create perturbation in the optical modes in the fiber and provide a coherent coupling between two modes in the optical fiber.
Abstract:
An optical communication assembly includes a demultiplexer coupled to an input fiber, a multiplexer coupled to an output fiber and a plurality of optical fibers. Each optical fiber is coupled to one or both of the demultiplexer and multiplexer. A plurality of attenuators are each coupled to an optical fiber in the plurality of optical fibers.
Abstract:
An optical fiber capable of producing white light with a sufficiently wide wavelength band and of stabilizing the polarized state. The optical fiber can produce white light in wavelength bands on both sides of a pumping light pulse inputted by a nonlinear phenomenon. A core (1) of the optical fiber is clad with a first clad (2), which is clad with a second clad (3). The ratio ( DELTA 2/ DELTA 1) between the relative refractive-index differences DELTA 1, DELTA 2 of the core (1) and the first clad (2) with reference to that of the second clad (3) is -0.4 to -0.85. The ratio of the outside diameter of the core (1) to that of the first clad (2) is 0.4 to 0.7. The relative refractive-index difference DELTA 1 is 0.6 to 1.2%. The transmission loss of light with a wavelength near 1.4 mu m is 10 Db/km or less. Stress imparting parts (4) for imparting stress to the core (1) are provided on both sides of the core (1) in the second clad (3) to make the fiber a constant polarization optical fiber. The shortest distance between the stress imparting parts (4) is 2.3 times or more the mode field diameter of the wavelength of the pumping light pulse.
Abstract:
A carbon isotope analyzer 1 includes a carbon dioxide isotope generator 40 that includes a combustion unit that generates gas containing carbon dioxide isotope from carbon isotope, and a carbon dioxide isotope purifying unit; a spectrometer 10 including an optical resonator 11 having a pair of mirrors 12, and a photodetector 15 that determines the intensity of light transmitted from the optical resonator 11; and a light generator 20 including a light source 23, a first optical fiber 21 to transmit a light beam from the light source 23, a second optical fiber 22 for wavelength conversion, the second optical fiber 22 splitting from the first optical fiber 21 at a point and combining with the first optical fiber 21 at another point downstream of the splitting point, and a non-linear optical crystal 25 that generates light having the absorption wavelength of the carbon dioxide isotope on the basis of the difference in frequency between light beams transmitted through the optical crystal 25. The carbon isotope analyzer 1 is a simple and convenient apparatus that can analyze isotope 14 C.
Abstract:
A saturable absorber for fiber laser mode-locking comprises a single-mode optical fiber (1) having a fiber portion (2) which is tapered or in which at least one longitudinal groove or at least one transverse hole is formed. Said tapered fiber portion is coated with a composite bleachable material (3), or said grooves or holes are filled with said composite material. In order to broaden a range of applications of the saturable and to extend its service life, said composite bleachable material comprises an inorganic matrix with an index of refraction similar to an index of refraction of the optical fiber and a nonlinear material embedded into said inorganic matrix, wherein said nonlinear material possesses a nonlinear absorption property and bleaches when exposed to laser radiation of intensity from 5MW/cm 2 to 500MW/cm 2 , while a waist diameter and of said tapered fiber portion or a number of grooves or holes and their configuration are chosen to satisfy a condition that laser light while propagating in the saturable absorber experiences losses between 1% and 50%. The proposed saturable absorber can be used in a resonator of a mode-locked fiber laser or incorporated into a construction of a fiber Bragg grating.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for producing short synchronous radiation pulses at different wavelengths, particularly to an optically parametric oscillator, comprising at least one pump radiation source (2), preferably a pump laser, for outputting radiation at a pump wavelength and a resonator (3) having a wavelength-dependent effective resonator length, wherein the resonator (3) has a non-linear wavelength converter (4) for producing radiation at a first and a second wavelength; a dispersive element (5) having a strong wavelength-dependent delay characteristic; and a coupling-out element (6) for at least partially coupling out the radiation from the resonator (3). In addition, the invention relates to a method for producing short radiation pulses by means of an apparatus (1), particularly an optically parametric oscillator.